(S/E) From the front door of the Pelican Inn, turn right along the pavement beside the A4 (Bath Road).
Turn right at the road junction, signposted to Little Bedwyn.
(1) Cross the railway and canal, then at a junction take the lane straight ahead, between two thatched cottages (signposted to North Standen). When the lane bends left, follow the track up the shallow valley ahead of you.
Pass an open-fronted barn on the right after 250 yards, continuing along the track with woodland (Jugg's Wood) to your right.
(2) At a junction of tracks at the end of the wood, turn right, still with the woodland on your immediate right. When the track bears right to a field gate, join a footpath leading straight on, which may be easy to overlook. This path becomes a descending “hollow way” that meets the end of a drive-by an isolated house and leads out to the road and canal.
(3) Cross the canal bridge ahead of you and follow the driveway beyond, passing between two houses to the railway. Cross quickly but carefully.
Beyond the metal gate on the other side, turn left and walk parallel to the railway for 400 yards, with the spire of Little Bedwyn church ahead.
(4) Just before the church, drop down into woodland. At the end of the wood, turn right through a gate into the churchyard. Walk round the church and out into Church Street. At the end of the road, turn left.
Beyond the phone box, turn left over a footbridge over the railway line and canal.
(5) Join the towpath and turn away from the lock to pass under the bridge you’ve just crossed. Follow the towpath for half a mile to bridge no (3) (which you crossed earlier), continuing along the canal beyond.
(6) After a further half-mile, with the road in close attendance to your right, pass Oakhill Down Lock and bridge. Go through a gate and resume your journey along the towpath, passing two further locks (Froxfield Middle and Bottom Locks). At the brick-built Froxfield Bridge (1) , leave the towpath and join the road. Turn left over the canal and railway. At the junction with the A4, turn left to return to the Pelican Inn.